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Quotes About Legend

Never laugh at live dragons.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Lies told fresh in the night fires of our dwindling solstice. A yarn becomes a legend. Tobacco spittle sears on charred logs. Light like foot lamps in a Bowery cabaret. Shadows fall upwardly to dance on a white forehead. All ablaze but the sockets of the eyes. Dark rings hold their truths. A good man turns wicked by the light of a Sturgeon Moon. Mephistopheles one and all. Savage saturnalia.
~ Unknown
Would anyone remember the story of Godiva if she lowered Coventry's taxes without taking her clothes off?
~ Unknown
I don't really know the story of the Pied Piper. I don't read stories, first of all. I just remember either a rabbit or a rat leading people out of the village with a flute. That's all I can tell you.
~ R. Kelly
Villains used to always die in the end. Even the monsters. Frankenstein, Dracula - you'd kill them with a stake. Now the nightmare guy comes back.
~ Benicio Del Toro
It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.
~ Robert Del Naja
You know the legend, lady, but you don't know the man. And damn if I'm not tempted to introduce you to the man.
~ Lorraine Heath
L'éphémère est une divinité polymorphe ainsi que son nom. Sur ces trois pieds qui sonnent comme une légende peuplée d'yeux de farfadets, mon ami Robert Desnos, ce singulier sage moderne, qui a des navires étranges dans chaque pli de sa cervelle, s'est longuement penché, cherchant par l'échelle de soie philologique le sens de ce mot fertile mirages.
~ Louis Aragon
The sore point became their family legend, their myth, their legacy. What they lost became their most prized possession. Their inheritance.
~ Louise Penny
Yeti. Big Foot. There was some old creature his grandmother had told him about. The Green Man. Half man, half tree. This was him. Beauvoir gripped his stick.
~ Louise Penny
There were Romulus and Remus. They were saved by a she-wolf. Suckled. But that was Roman mythology, not the bible. Wolves.
~ Louise Penny
In size the men were as large as the Colossus of Rhodes from the waist up, and the horses were as large as a great merchantman. Their number, however, I leave unrecorded for fear that someone may think it incredible, it was so great.
~ Unknown
the means by which we might achieve the status of Christian legend.
~ Joel Richardson
A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some importance to the believer.
~ Unknown
Elvis is great and so is anybody who lasts like he does.
~ Dave Clark
LeBron is making a case for himself to be one of the greatest players to ever play.
~ Gary Payton
It's always great to add to your legacy.
~ Chris Jericho
I certainly hope 'Dragon' can leave some legacy behind.
~ Donnie Yen
I'm the legend. I always be the legend.
~ The Iron Sheik
I always aimed at being a legend.
~ Eileen Myles
Anthony Bourdain is a legend and an inspiration for me.
~ Frank Grillo
I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
~ Yohan Blake
Darren Criss is a legend.
~ Alex Sharp
I'm just glad that people look at me as a legend.
~ Big Daddy Kane